[Wine] Mac OS X, DOS tools start X11, this is silly...

[Alexandre Julliard]

perryh at pluto.rain.com writes:

> James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote on Sept. 10th:
>> >Has there been any thought given to delaying wine's
>> >initialization of its X connection, fonts, etc. until
>> >the Windows program actually executes a call that
>> >requires an X server?
>> >
>> This will cause Wine to crash with an X server not found error...
>>
>> In other words, there has to be a running X server in order for
>> Wine to run.  This is a requirement even for windowless operations.
>
> Again, has there been any thought given as to whether this
> requirement is _necessary_?  What problems would arise if it
> delayed locating the X server, opening a connection, setting
> up fonts, etc. until the Windows program actually performs
> some operation that touches the display?

Yes, a lot of thought has been given to the problem, and it's
essentially what we already do, as far as it's possible within the
constraints of the Windows API.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org